We’re Celebrating the Wrong Indie Games

Are Stray and Dave the Diver even indie games? What's an indie game? If a tree falls in the forest and Dave the Diver gets a Best Independent Game award nomination, can Geoff Keighley hear my screams?

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Introduction (0:00:00)
Dave the Diver (0:01:59)
Stray (0:17:13)
Why It All Matters (0:27:15)

Works referenced at 44:42:
[1] Ruberg, Bonnie. 2019. Video Games Have Always Been Queer. NYU Press.
[2] Shaw, Adrienne. 2014. Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture. University of Minnesota Press.
[3] Anthropy, Anna. 2012. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-Outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Thank you to my interviewees:
Droqen: https://www.droqen.com/ ‪@droqen2‬
Sylvie: https://sylvie.website/
And thank you to the people who lent their voices:
Darkfry ‪@Darkfry‬
Kevin ‪@PixelLit‬
Sam ‪@Afterthoughts‬
Monty ‪@MontyZander‬
Alicia ‪@Transparencyboo‬
Mark ‪@GMTK‬
Chris ‪@ErrantSignal‬

All game footage captured by me, except the Dave the Diver MGS section (taken from DustDogg Gaming)

Music used in this episode:
Clocking In - Logan Hayes
Seals and Dolphins - D'Anthoni Wooten
Diver - Jukio Kallio
Welcome to my Bistro - Jongho Yoo
Inside the Wall - Yann Van Der Cruyssen
The Notebooks - Yann Van Der Cruyssen
Shop Theme - Koji Kondo
Restaurant Prep - D'Anthoni Wooten

Games shown (aside from the diving and cat games): Rain World, The Pathless, Dishonored, Rollerdrome, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, Sifu, Citizen Sleeper, Neon White, Teardown, Yume Nikki, BABBDI, NaissanceE, Animal Well, Ghost of Tsushima, Forest's Secret, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Thirty Flights of Loving, The Evil Within, Paradise Killer, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Inscryption, Bury Me My Love, Balatro, Carto, VVVVVV, With Those We Love Alive, Curtain, Problem Attic, Venba, The Witness, A Good Gardener, Dyo, Before Your Eyes, Her Story, Baba is You, Outer Wilds